Ever since I read the book
Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards when I was about 10 years old I've been obsessed with planting my own garden. The story is about an orphan girl who finds this abandoned cottage and fixes it up with flowers and makes the little house her own. We have had a little piece of our property that we use for vegetable gardening and ever since the 6th grade I have taken over the horticultural business of planting the garden. For the past couple of months I have been intensely reading about growing my own seeds indoors. I have checked out book after book after book from the library about propagation and watched many movies about starting my own seedlings.
Evidently since it is 12 weeks to our last frost date it's time to plant broccoli--which I have done. I planted them last Thursday and they miraculously poked their heads out Sunday morning! I was so excited! I started the little seeds in soil that you just add water and the pellets plump up and placed them in egg cartons. Meanwhile I was also getting guidance from the Master Gardener Jerry Baker on my laptop.
Four days later the seedlings surprisingly came up.
I made this crude contraption to put the new seedlings under. My little brother made the wooden chair and I somehow fastened the shop light to a bamboo stick and stuffed the broccoli underneath. The only draw back is that I can't raise the light now that the plant is touching the light... A project for another day I guess.
